{"id":13642,"date":"2025-03-19T12:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=13642"},"modified":"2025-03-19T12:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:45:36","slug":"irans-daily-gasoline-use-hits-record-of-144-million-liters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/13642\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s daily gasoline use hits record of 144 million liters"},"content":{"rendered":"

RoydadNaft – <\/a><\/span>\u00a0Iran has reported a new record in its gasoline consumption as motorists take to the roads at the start of a busy travel season that coincides with the Persian New Year holidays.<\/p>\n

The National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC), a subsidiary of the Iranian Oil Ministry, said in a statement on Tuesday that the daily gasoline usage in the country had reached 144.2 million liters a day earlier.<\/p>\n

It said the usage was 13 million liters or 10% higher than the consumption reported on March 17, 2024.<\/p>\n

The NIOPDC said that Monday\u2019s gasoline consumption represented an increase of less than 12 million liters from the previous day.<\/p>\n

It added that the gasoline consumption in Iran has averaged at 124 million liters per day in the year leading to\u00a0late March 2024.<\/p>\n

The figures come as Iranians prepare to celebrate Nowruz holidays which mark the start of the new calendar year in the country.<\/p>\n

The occasion, which will start on March 21 this year and will see two weeks of closures of schools and businesses, marks a busy travel season in Iran with millions taking to the roads to visit various cities and towns across the country.<\/p>\n

NIOPDC\u2019s Tuesday figures about gasoline consumption exceeded its earlier forecasts suggesting that the usage would peak at 135 million liters per day in the days leading to Nowruz.<\/p>\n

The company announced in mid-January that gasoline production in Iran had increased by nearly 10% in the three months before that, saying that total gasoline output from the country’s refineries\u00a0had reached 107 million liters per day.<\/p>\n

Iran has been importing limited amounts of gasoline to respond to a rising demand for fuel, a problem which has been exacerbated in recent years because of heavily subsidized prices that have encouraged smuggling across the borders.<\/p>\n

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